The Osceola times., 1887-07-09

OK the SOth delegates from the patri-
archs Of the Grand Union Order OF Odd
Fellows of Ohio aud West Virginia. con-
stitutinp the Ohio Grand Lodge, met at
wheeling, W. Va, and formed a patri-
archial regiment
A REPORT is currenti n New York TO the
effect that Cyrus W. Field, in addition TO
his holding Of 10000 shares of Mauhattan
stock, has also disposed Of his interest in
the Western Union to Jay Gould.
PRESIDENT BATES, Of the Baltimore a.
Ohio Telegraph Company, declares that
there Is no truth in the rumors current IN
Wall street that the Baltimore Ohio
lines have been sold TO the Western
Union.
r. @. Dun a Co.'S mercantile agency OF
New York reports that for the first half
OF 1886 the failures in the United States
are 4gl2, against 5,l56 for the same
period in the previous year, showing de-
cline Of PA
Tue State Department has been in.
formed by the Consul of the United
States at Amsterdam that an exhibition
of objects relating to the art OF music is
TO be held in that city from the 1st OF
September TO the 18Th Of October next
and that foreign exhibits will be gladly
received.
PLEuRo-PyEUMoNIA, which has been rag
ing in the upper part Cf West Chester
County, N. Y. has attacked the cattle ut
Throgg's Neck The State officials have
been notified and strict quarantine is
established The infected animals Will
be killed at once.
THE reports recently circulated with
regard to excitement and race trouble
In Qreenvile and Pckcns Counties, s. C.,
greatly exaggcrat,l II the condition of ar
fairs There is some local uieaslncss,
but no expectation of a collision. The
colored people and some of the whites
are forming labor associations but no
violence is even remotely probable
The new postal treaty with Mexico
went into operation on the lst
YALE defeated Harvard in tho college
boat race at New London, Conn., OF the
lst.
THE surplus money in the United States
treasury Is over $40, 900 coo less thln II
year ago.
The three members of the "fur robbers"
gang captured in Michigan have been
jailed at Cleveland.
OMAHA, Ncb. has shut down on gam.
bling, and the knights Of the green cloth
are seeking new fields.
The decrease OF the public debt during
June was SIG S5o7!5 II; for the past year,
sio9 707, ,646 3s.
Tue Metropolitan National Blnk OF
New York has begun suit against the st.
Louis Post.Dispatch Publishing Company
for $1,000
Mucu discomfort is reported to exist in
Bohemia and Hungary, which it is pre-
dicted will ultimately menace the auton.
omy Of the Austro. Hungarian empire.
ArCHIsoN, Kas. is out of luck. There
is no money in the treasury, her police
men and firemen have been discharged
and the street lights put out
FROM September 81 to 3, inclusive, the
week previous to the Grand Army en-
campment in st. Louis, big reunion Of
the blue and the gray will be held at
Evansvi lie, Ind.
AN examination which has been made
o. the accounts Of the late Levi Bacon,
nnancil clerk In the Interior Depart.
ment, at Washngtoi, wh' died the I'D
ult., rev sals a deficiency of $3S 0j0.
DuRINa the month of Jane, the circula-
tion of standard silver dollars increased
sS4 6S7, and the gold holdings of the
treasury increased s207 500 The increase
of silver circ Ilation during the year was
81, 1896 90, and the increase in the gold
holdings during the same time was 81
9l6. 600
FRIDAY, July was, according To Gus
tom in the Harmony Woollen Mills, at
Cohoes. N. Y, the semi-annual scrubbing
day when the weavcrs are required to
scrub the floors in the ncighborhood Of
their looms. They refusel the task and
quit work, whereupon the mills were
closed, throwing about g., SOD operatives
out of employment
A DUEL was fought in the City of Mex
leo on the lst between Eustace Barron, a
member Of one of the oldest English fam
lies resilient in the city, and Nincente
Garron. a mem ber of the Spanish Club.
Barron received slight bullet wound in
the side. Garron had his temple grazed
by bullet from his adversary's pistol
DURING the fiscal year just ended tho
principal Of the bonde ed del bt Of the United
States decreased sl27, 81 i,03), and the
amount Of the accrued but unpiid interest
on such debt decreased sos 81. 1hD
decrease IN certificates OF deposit
amounted to So, $50 600, and In demand
notes and fractional currency TO S14 ABS.
During the same period there was an in-
crease OF So, 1S2 S54 in gold and silver cer-
tificatcs, and an increase of $40 $40 Sol IN
the cash in the treasury, showing net
decrease in the public debt during tho
year of Sl09, 7O1, 6i6